Speaker 1: KFI A six. It's later with Mo Kelly. We're live
Speaker 1: everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and I'm told I'm told
Speaker 1: that Stephan has done his latest homework assignment. Not too
Speaker 1: long ago, we had a conversation with Gary Hoffman talking
Speaker 1: about the TV show Adolescens on Netflix. I loved it,
Speaker 1: and I loved it because Gary Hoffman told me about it,
Speaker 1: watched it. It was everything he said it was and more.
Speaker 1: And Stephan, unbeknownst to me, actually started watching it and
Speaker 1: he gave me just a little bit of his review.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that a little bit later on this
Speaker 1: going on right now. Oh, and some show programming notes. Tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I'll be joined on the show by David Ayr, who
Speaker 1: is the director of A working Man, which is Jason
Speaker 1: Statham's latest movie. He's also the director of The bee
Speaker 1: Keeper with Jason Statham. He's also the director of Suicide
Speaker 1: Squad and so much more. But we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about A working Man, which hits theaters late tomorrow, you know,
Speaker 1: they do the late Thursday night showing and then officially
Speaker 1: in theaters on Friday and on Monday, the thirty first.
Speaker 1: I'll be joined by Bosh Harry Bosh, Titus Welliver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the coolest three hours in all Talk radio. Baby. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I try to tell you. So Titus Welliver
Speaker 1: is going to join us on Monday, talking of course
Speaker 1: about Bosh Legacy Season three, which is thought to be
Speaker 1: the final season. No official announcement, of course, I'll ask
Speaker 1: him see what we can find out, big, big show tonight. Though,
Speaker 1: before we get to all of that, in the coming days,
Speaker 1: we have some Dodger updates. The Dodgers are going to
Speaker 1: be visiting the White House next month on April seventh,
Speaker 1: and there's this new Dodger's Panda Express promotion, which I'm
Speaker 1: so giddy about. I think I'm going to sign up
Speaker 1: for it right now. It is so cool and I
Speaker 1: love me some Panda Express. And we have a Waymo update.
Speaker 1: Weymo was expanding, so that means Twalla Sharp is going
Speaker 1: to make even more money from Waimo. I guess he
Speaker 1: probably got a raise and a bonus for all the
Speaker 1: good words that he's been putting in for Weymo. He'll
Speaker 1: deny it, but we know better. And remember how I
Speaker 1: tell you how there's no cancel culture. Well tonight is
Speaker 1: a no cancel Culture show. In hour two, we'll play
Speaker 1: you the RUSS trailer. You know Alec Baldwin, that movie
Speaker 1: which unfortunately led to the death of Helena Hutchins. Well,
Speaker 1: we're going to play that trailer tonight. Obviously, Alec Baldwin
Speaker 1: still has a career, so he's doing okay all things considered,
Speaker 1: not even talking about his reality TV show Mel Gibson.
Speaker 1: He there was an announcement that he's going to begin
Speaker 1: shooting The Resurrection of Christ, obviously the sequel to the
Speaker 1: Passion of the Christ, and he's going to start filming
Speaker 1: that this summer from what I'm told, so we can
Speaker 1: pick it up there. We have the viral load with
Speaker 1: Tiffany Hobbs and get this. If you attended USC and
Speaker 1: I didn't attend USC, I did some like postgraduate film
Speaker 1: work there. If you were to attend USC, would you
Speaker 1: be okay with the idea of Snoop Dogg speaking at commencement?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. Snoop Dogg is a
Speaker 1: very funny individual. I think he is a fantastic story
Speaker 1: the totality of his life and career, But I don't know.
Speaker 1: Assuming you know you're paying one hundred thousand dollars year
Speaker 1: to go to USC. If Snoop Dogg came up there
Speaker 1: as the keynote speaker for your graduation, I don't know
Speaker 1: how well that's gonna go over. Well, we're gonna find
Speaker 1: out very soon, as he's up to be the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. He knows speaker. If I'm not mistaken, we'll
Speaker 1: get into that. There is so much going on. Let
Speaker 1: me say good evening to the crew. Mark Ronner, how
Speaker 1: are you doing, sir?
Speaker 2: I want Snoop Dogg to hand me my diplizzle diprizzle shizzle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good to see Himo. It's good to see you.
Speaker 1: I don't know Snoop met him a few times in
Speaker 1: the course of working in the music industry. I think
Speaker 1: he is a fantastic rags to riches story. How he's
Speaker 1: re reinvented himself over the years, where he went from
Speaker 1: a rapper to actor to cooking show co host to
Speaker 1: just this personality. He's a personality. At this point. People
Speaker 1: probably don't even know him for his music. In large part,
Speaker 1: they know him for just his TV commentary, his sports
Speaker 1: commentary on the Olympics and boxing matches, that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: I thought he was kind of known now for being
Speaker 2: the elder Statesman of Weed ambassadorship that too.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not just one thing when you think
Speaker 1: of Snoop Dogg. There are a number of things that
Speaker 1: may come to mind if you're familiar with him. People
Speaker 1: have different entry points with these individuals. They may have
Speaker 1: learned of him through Martha Stewart. They may have learned
Speaker 1: of him through his music. They may have learned of
Speaker 1: him through his other products that he's endorsed and sold
Speaker 1: over the years. It's a pretty amazing dude. He's a
Speaker 1: man of many facets. Yes, yes, I just don't know
Speaker 1: about commencement speaker. But I mean, you can make the argument,
Speaker 1: and I'll get into it later. You can make the
Speaker 1: argument that that story has value for then new graduates.
Speaker 1: I get that. I just don't know how good he
Speaker 1: is as a public speaker.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, we had the Speaker of the House, Tom Foley,
Speaker 2: and my graduation, and if you could stay awake through that,
Speaker 2: I would love to have had somebody from the entertainment
Speaker 2: world that you know, everybody. Let's just be straight here.
Speaker 2: You show up for your graduation ceremony with a crippling hangover. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's the law. It's what everybody does. There's no point
Speaker 2: denying it. And so if you have somebody that's even
Speaker 2: remotely interesting, that that really makes it more bearable.
Speaker 1: I remember ours, well, actually I don't remember. I remember
Speaker 1: the name, I remember that he was speaking, I don't
Speaker 1: remember anything he said. It was Senator Bill Bradley at
Speaker 1: my graduation. Couldn't tell you a thing that he said.
Speaker 1: It wasn't memorable in the least, you know, no big deal,
Speaker 1: but you know, the people there, we were. We were
Speaker 1: happy to be graduating. Some of us were sober, most
Speaker 1: of us were not, so it didn't really matter what
Speaker 1: he was saying. None of us remember we were day
Speaker 1: drinking that much. I do remember. And it wasn't a
Speaker 1: good idea because it was in the sun and it
Speaker 1: was May. It was hot outside and people were ready
Speaker 1: to pass out. But yeah, but you were day drinking
Speaker 1: because you love your country. I went to a friend's
Speaker 1: graduation from medical school and they had the late actor
Speaker 1: Rod Steiger give the commencement speech, and he was just
Speaker 1: clearly insane, but it was so entertaining. I'm jealous of
Speaker 1: anybody who gets somebody entertaining at a graduation speech Rod
Speaker 1: Steiger was he insane or on something I don't know,
Speaker 1: six o one and half a dozen of the other
Speaker 1: but he was fun. I mean as opposed to just
Speaker 1: listening to some gas bags growing on there for a
Speaker 1: half hour while you're fighting to keep your eyes open. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know, mine was boor ring, boor ring. All the platitudes,
Speaker 1: all the cliches. I remember some of them, like you
Speaker 1: have your whole life in front of you. You're the
Speaker 1: leaders of tomorrow. We're turning the world over to you.
Speaker 1: Please take care of it. All that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: This is like, yeah, you hear Charlie Brown's teacher. Wah
Speaker 1: bah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Think of how lucky people are who get, say, Conan
Speaker 2: O'Brien as their commencement speaker.
Speaker 1: I'm jealous of all that. Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know. It'd be interesting to find out how people
Speaker 1: are responding to it.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know that Snoop if I'm not mistaken, and correct
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong to wala. I think Snoop is
Speaker 1: made some sizable donations to the university over the years,
Speaker 1: in the way that Dre has as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, and I can promise you this Snoop,
Speaker 3: even off the top, is a great speaker. He is
Speaker 3: a great speaker. I have seen some of his speeches
Speaker 3: that he's given to his football team and as they're
Speaker 3: graduating high school and as they're moving along in his team,
Speaker 3: off the top, he knows how to pull from where
Speaker 3: he came to inspire you to go further and beyond.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a treat for the UCLA students.
Speaker 1: Or did Snoop go to college, Not that I know.
Speaker 3: Of the College of the Hood. He went to Long
Speaker 3: Beach poly Though High School, Right, Yeah, he did. He
Speaker 3: went and he was there alongside camer Diaz. That's right,
Speaker 3: they're the same graduating class. And then he became a
Speaker 3: rapper and the rest of his sister all.
Speaker 2: Right, that does create a minor degree of cognitive dissonance.
Speaker 1: Why is that because he didn't go to college. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's actually kind of common. You will hear a lot
Speaker 1: of college speakers, commencement speakers who may not have gone
Speaker 1: to college or have followed the traditional educational path, but
Speaker 1: because their life was so extraordinary, they end up being
Speaker 1: commencement speaker. And that's why I think that there's an appeal.
Speaker 1: We'll get into it next hour. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: to say about Snoop Dogg and being the commencement speaker
Speaker 1: for USC but we'll get to that later. It's Later
Speaker 1: with Mo Kelly KFI AM six forty. We have a
Speaker 1: Dodger's Update, two or three of them. Actually, we're live
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Speaker 1: some Panda Express, so they got me in. Is there
Speaker 1: someone who could retrieve some of that for us right now?
Speaker 1: I guess Stephan could. He doesn't have to do anything
Speaker 1: for the rest.
Speaker 2: That'd be great, thank you, especially since Stefan throughout my
Speaker 2: emergency meat loaf I'm going to use tonight. If you
Speaker 2: could get a simpandix that, I would love that. So
Speaker 2: it's a true story than Stefan. Yeah it is, don't
Speaker 2: you know? To keep your hands to yourself and don't
Speaker 2: touch other people's food.
Speaker 5: I would, but when I was cleaning out the freezer,
Speaker 5: the box deteriorated.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, since when was cleaning out the freezer
Speaker 1: your damn job?
Speaker 5: When the door couldn't close that well anymore? So I
Speaker 5: was like worried that we wouldn't be able to use
Speaker 5: it anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh so you're making executive decisions about who could stay
Speaker 1: and who had to go. Pretty much so you ended
Speaker 1: up throwing out someone's food which was still gonna be eaten.
Speaker 5: I if he ate it, I would love to see
Speaker 5: the twenty four hours after.
Speaker 1: I know that would not have settled well in his system.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you meant well, fush, but you try that
Speaker 2: in prison, you're gonna get shanked.
Speaker 1: It is not your place, Stephan, to make the decision.
Speaker 2: But there's a way for you to make it right.
Speaker 2: You can go get his Panda Express and we'll be
Speaker 2: friends again.
Speaker 1: He's not wrong. He's not a bad idea. I mean
Speaker 1: I could, I could cover it. I just can't go
Speaker 1: physically get it. Goodness, all right, all right, this we'll do.
Speaker 1: We'll have Twalla work the board, all right, Marc will
Speaker 1: come in and do the show and I'll do the news.
Speaker 1: And what's not to like? Like, it's like musical chairs switch. Yeah, Adie,
Speaker 1: how let me get back to Dodgers baseball, which officially
Speaker 1: begins tomorrow. And also the announcement was made a couple
Speaker 1: days ago that the Dodgers planned to visit President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump at the White House to celebrate their World Series
Speaker 1: victory for the twenty twenty four season. They released a
Speaker 1: statement and said that it would visit the White House
Speaker 1: quote in keeping with long standing baseball tradition clothes quote.
Speaker 1: That's interesting because if you know the history back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, when the Dodgers last one before the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four season, the team waited until the following summer,
Speaker 1: I would say, intentionally when Joe Biden was in office,
Speaker 1: to make their presidential White House visit. And you may
Speaker 1: remember the Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, he originally did not
Speaker 1: want to visit with President Trump. And this goes back
Speaker 1: to my conversations with Jackie Ray and our more general
Speaker 1: conversations like, yeah, it's perceived as kind of a political event, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: and you put these teams in players in positions where
Speaker 1: they feel they have to make a decision back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty excuse me, actually twenty nineteen when Mookie Betts
Speaker 1: before he got to the Dodgers, he was playing with
Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox and they won the World Series
Speaker 1: that year. Mookie Bets declined to go to the White House.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Dave Roberts or Mookie Betts or
Speaker 1: any other Dodgers will have any misgivings. I'm saying that
Speaker 1: it's part of the story because it's complicated like that.
Speaker 1: So when you report on the Dodgers going to see
Speaker 1: or she should say, going to visit the White House
Speaker 1: and see President Trump, then you have to throw in
Speaker 1: the context of everything which happened before. I'm quite sure
Speaker 1: it will be fine. I'm sure it will be fine,
Speaker 1: but still there's always this cloud over the whole meeting,
Speaker 1: just because of where we are as a country right now.
Speaker 1: I don't fault the Dodgers foregoing. I wouldn't fault the
Speaker 1: Dodgers if they didn't go. I said it before and
Speaker 1: I'll say it again. It may be a tradition, but
Speaker 1: I think it's for the best that the tradition is
Speaker 1: brought to an end so we don't have all this speculation,
Speaker 1: we won't have this discomfort, and hopefully we can just
Speaker 1: get back to doing what we usually do. And I
Speaker 1: also say the other side of it is when you
Speaker 1: have the president going to i'll say wrestling events or
Speaker 1: the super Bowl or NASCAR or some other sporting event,
Speaker 1: you further cloud the issue. You know, we can't have
Speaker 1: it both ways. If we want politics to stay out
Speaker 1: of sports and stop forcing sports to then go visit
Speaker 1: politicians and the White House. That's the easy way around it.
Speaker 1: So that's coming up on April seventh. We'll see if
Speaker 1: it's going to be anything to that. You say, well,
Speaker 1: why April seventh, Well, they'll be in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: Playing the Washington National So if you were to do it,
Speaker 1: that's the best time to do it. And also, if
Speaker 1: you've never been to Washington, DC. In April with the
Speaker 1: cherry blossoms, it's the most beautiful time to visit the city.
Speaker 1: If you've never been, I highly recommend that you visit
Speaker 1: the nation's capital. Be able to take in the history
Speaker 1: of our country, visit the monuments, see what the city
Speaker 1: has to offer. And I don't know if Mark, have
Speaker 1: you ever been to DC? I have, yes, did you
Speaker 1: go college age or just for business?
Speaker 2: I went there right after I graduated when I was
Speaker 2: being recruited for a job.
Speaker 1: Oh that's why I remember the job. You told me
Speaker 1: about the job. I remember when I went to Georgetown
Speaker 1: and DC. This is in the late eighties, early nineties.
Speaker 1: This is pre Internet I had. I would say, the privilege,
Speaker 1: not the burden, but the privilege of researching my papers
Speaker 1: at the Library of Congress. Oh man, you know you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. If you have any sense of
Speaker 1: history or appreciation for history, to walk into the Library
Speaker 1: of Congress and do what you need to do, it's
Speaker 1: something special. Now, Now, if you've grown up with the Internet,
Speaker 1: you may not appreciate having that type of resource. But
Speaker 1: when you're in college and there is no such thing
Speaker 1: as the Internet, it's the best resource, probably arguably in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 2: I was already jealous of you just wrapping access to
Speaker 2: the Exorcist steps there. Had a good time. Except when
Speaker 2: you say do what you need to do in the
Speaker 2: Library of Congress, that sounds like you were scoping out
Speaker 2: the men's room.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no no. Nothing like that happened.
Speaker 1: Nothing like John Wick happened either, Nothing like that. It's
Speaker 1: just to have such resources and be in the nation's Capital,
Speaker 1: to visit the different monuments which have been there for
Speaker 1: hundreds of years, walk those same steps to walk by. Well. Actually,
Speaker 1: when I was in school, and you'll be able to
Speaker 1: appreciate this mark. When I was in school, obviously, this
Speaker 1: is pre nine to eleven. You could get very close
Speaker 1: to the White House. Could you could walk in front
Speaker 1: of the gates. You can get very close to the gags.
Speaker 1: Actually you could drive in front of the White House.
Speaker 1: You can no longer do that. They push you so
Speaker 1: far back. It doesn't have the same type of impact.
Speaker 2: This was back in the old days, before you had
Speaker 2: to have a full body cavity search just to get
Speaker 2: on an airplane and everything else.
Speaker 1: Right, right, it's a different time, different world. But if
Speaker 1: you ever have a chance to go relating back to
Speaker 1: the Dodgers, go to the nation's capital and take in
Speaker 1: America's history. There's so much to see. Go to obviously
Speaker 1: the Library of Congress, go to the monuments down on
Speaker 1: the mall, to walk up in the Lincoln Memorial, or
Speaker 1: to see the Washington Monument up close. It will change
Speaker 1: you in a way. And I let two times ago
Speaker 1: I finally got to see the King Memorial. It's an
Speaker 1: emotional experience.
Speaker 2: I would say for most people, you would have to
Speaker 2: be pretty jaded not to be awestruck by all the
Speaker 2: stuff there.
Speaker 1: And you can't do it all usually in one trip.
Speaker 1: You just can't. So that's why I would say, I
Speaker 1: try to get back every single year for one reason
Speaker 1: or another, so I can take it in a different part
Speaker 1: of the city. Sounds like a bro trip. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm inviting you though, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't like you that much. No, no, you will, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's Later with Mokelly ca if I am six forty
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Speaker 1: news when we come back. Well it's not necessarily bad news,
Speaker 1: but it's some honest news. Our economy is changing, our
Speaker 1: buyer habits, and our consumerism is changing. We're buying things,
Speaker 1: just in a different way. Coles is closing a lot
Speaker 1: of locations. Walgreens confirmed plans to shut down five hundred stores,
Speaker 1: and there's more. We'll tell you about it just a moment.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 1: It's closing time for another department store or actually most
Speaker 1: department stores. And it's not that we're buying less, it's
Speaker 1: not that we're spending less money. It's how we're choosing
Speaker 1: to spend our money. It's the way that we're willing
Speaker 1: to hand over our money.
Speaker 2: Holes.
Speaker 1: I've been there maybe twice in the past ten years,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't tell you what I went in there for,
Speaker 1: and I can't tell you if I even bought anything.
Speaker 1: But this is what I can tell you. Whatever they
Speaker 1: are offer at Cole's, I can find online quicker, with
Speaker 1: no driving and possibly at a lower price. That's what
Speaker 1: all these retailers are dealing with. We talked about Macy's
Speaker 1: last week. Now it's time to talk about Coals. Coles
Speaker 1: is going to be shuttering some twenty four stores on
Speaker 1: March twenty ninth, and it's a part of a larger
Speaker 1: strategy to close most of their quote unquote underperforming stores
Speaker 1: as far as California is concerned. They're going to close
Speaker 1: the Balboa, San Diego store, the Encinnitas, Fremont, Napa, Pleasanton
Speaker 1: Point West, which is in Sacramento, San Rafael, San Lui, Obispo,
Speaker 1: and Westchester all being closed, and then also lists the
Speaker 1: other locations around the country which are going to be closed.
Speaker 1: And if you were to ask me, and maybe I'm
Speaker 1: the wrong person to ask, I assume I could ask Mark,
Speaker 1: and I could ask Stefan or to Walla, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure they would be able to give a coherent answer.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be their fault. But it's about being able
Speaker 1: to distinguish yourself as a retailer. What is it that
Speaker 1: Coal sells that you cannot get anywhere else. When someone
Speaker 1: says coals to me, and I'm not trying to be dismissive,
Speaker 1: well not really, not completely, but when you say coals
Speaker 1: to me, I think of bed, bathroom beyond. And they
Speaker 1: sell clothes too. That's about They do a little bit
Speaker 1: of this, a little bit of that, but nothing that
Speaker 1: I can only go to Coals to get, which is
Speaker 1: a little different than I would say, maybe home Depot.
Speaker 1: There are still things that I gotta go to home
Speaker 1: Depot to actually get. Or I need cut or I
Speaker 1: need a certain type of device, or I need something
Speaker 1: for my bathroom, I have to go to home depot,
Speaker 1: And I think that's part of the reason why home
Speaker 1: Depot is still hanging around. But I can't think of
Speaker 1: anything that is out of coals that I couldn't get
Speaker 1: online and about the same amount of time.
Speaker 2: I hate to agree with you, as we all know,
Speaker 2: but my limited exposure to Cole's I've been there a
Speaker 2: few times back when I worked at a newspaper in Indiana.
Speaker 2: Was it seemed to me, and I could be wrong,
Speaker 2: it seemed to me like kind of a lower rent
Speaker 2: JC Penny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know what, And I actually I would
Speaker 1: say Coles was a little be above J C. Penny.
Speaker 2: Do you think, Okay, yeah, it's kind of a photo finish.
Speaker 1: You know, six on one hand, half dozen on the other.
Speaker 1: I think of J. C. Penny as kmart lowest tier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Coles is more one, just a tiny step above that,
Speaker 1: not much, not much, maybe because the stores don't seem
Speaker 1: as old and dingy if you were to walk into him,
Speaker 1: as opposed to a Pennies.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they call it J C. Penny
Speaker 2: or or Pennies now, I don't know. We'll get that
Speaker 2: sorted out as soon as we get Daylight. Saving and
Speaker 2: savings sorted out.
Speaker 1: Well. I would like to say savings because because like
Speaker 1: a savings account, I'm not saving just one thing. I'm
Speaker 1: saving a lot of things. So it's savings to me.
Speaker 1: But I'm always corrected when I say daylight savings.
Speaker 2: No, I think you've settled it. It always struck me
Speaker 2: as one of those kind of places in the mall
Speaker 2: where you just walk right past it. You see the opening,
Speaker 2: you kind of you hear the crickets and you just
Speaker 2: keep walking.
Speaker 1: You mean the J. C. Penny crickets holes. Well, I
Speaker 1: think of Coles More as a stand up alone building,
Speaker 1: or at least the one in Torrance is it's not
Speaker 1: connected to a mall. Well, there's one in Torrents, and
Speaker 1: I think there's one two in Torrents, one by on
Speaker 1: like Cringeshaw, I think, and on the way to pch
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken. And then there's the one on Hawthorne,
Speaker 1: and that one actually is connected to Macy's. That's right.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I'm actually kind of surprised that this happened
Speaker 5: because I thought when Cole's got in bed with Amazon,
Speaker 5: it was so easy to send returns back because you
Speaker 5: don't even need your receipt as long as you just
Speaker 5: brought the package back and they scanned the actual the
Speaker 5: sticker that was on the box. That's all you needed
Speaker 5: and you were good to go, And I thought that
Speaker 5: was cool, and you're going to get more foot traffic.
Speaker 5: It's interesting you say.
Speaker 1: That, because Coals confirmed that it was stopping its Amazon
Speaker 1: return services at most of their locations as part of
Speaker 1: a test, because they thought that they would be able
Speaker 1: to make more money not having to deal with that
Speaker 1: portion of the Amazon business. So they tried to connect
Speaker 1: themselves to online retailing, if you will, but they weren't
Speaker 1: able to make it work. And it's not just Coals.
Speaker 1: I mean, we told you about Macy's last week, and
Speaker 1: Walgreens is closing five hundred stores in thirty three states
Speaker 1: because of this retail crisis. And it's a retail crisis.
Speaker 1: It's about how people choose to conduct commerce. Yes, we're
Speaker 1: spending money, but if you ask anyone like me, it's eBay,
Speaker 1: it's Amazon, it's online. It's not these traditional brick and
Speaker 1: mortar retailers. Anything I need or would need from Walgreens,
Speaker 1: I am one hundred getting from Amazon and it might
Speaker 1: even show up the same day and I don't even
Speaker 1: have to leave my house. I don't know how financially
Speaker 1: that works for Amazon, but as sure as hell works,
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe Cole's learned the lesson you do not cross
Speaker 2: Jeff Bezos. It's like crossing the kingpin. You're out of business.
Speaker 1: Well, the Washington Post surely learned that lesson you don't
Speaker 1: cross Jeff Bezos. Starts a new sheriff in town. We
Speaker 1: don't have editorials which are criticizing this president, best president ever.
Speaker 2: I just can't woodword in Bernstein. If they were dead,
Speaker 2: they'd be rolling in their grapes. Well, they might die
Speaker 2: sooner because this might be the last straw.
Speaker 1: Yes, fifteen thousand stores across the country are set to
Speaker 1: shut down in twenty twenty five talking about the retail crisis,
Speaker 1: and some five hundred Walgreens locations are going to be
Speaker 1: shutting down. It's the pharmacy store chain. And you've seen
Speaker 1: more and more how it's become easier to get prescriptions filled.
Speaker 1: It's easier to do a lot of your medical non
Speaker 1: I'll say treatment needs online. If you need a prescription filled,
Speaker 1: you don't need to go to a Walgreens, you can Amazon.
Speaker 1: I think Amazon has a medical health division now where
Speaker 1: you can do all this stuff through Amazon as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that comes up on my phone and I'm baffled.
Speaker 2: I'd like to know who uses that and how it
Speaker 2: works for them.
Speaker 1: I would ask to Wallet, because you'd probably know better
Speaker 1: than anyone. But I have yet to meet anyone who
Speaker 1: has done that or use that Amazon Health feature or
Speaker 1: they're you know, the prescription filling feature. But going back
Speaker 1: to Walgreens, it estimates that a quarter of it's eighty
Speaker 1: seven hundred stores in the US. I didn't know they
Speaker 1: had that many, Number one, and Walgreens is saying that
Speaker 1: one fourth of those eighty seven hundred stores are not profitable.
Speaker 1: The company announced the closures despite its fiscal fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and full year earnings beating Wall Street expectations. But I
Speaker 1: guess they were low expectations to begin with. Drug stores,
Speaker 1: as we were kind of talking about, have struggled to
Speaker 1: stay afloat amid shrinking prescription reimbursement, persistent theft, rising costs,
Speaker 1: and consumers who have strayed to online retailers or competitors
Speaker 1: with better prices. Yes, as we were saying, but this
Speaker 1: is not and I always want to make the distinction,
Speaker 1: This is not a failure of our economy. This is
Speaker 1: an evolution of our economy. When people make decisions to
Speaker 1: buy something, how we buy it, and where we buy
Speaker 1: it has just been changing. We have a generation of
Speaker 1: people who are now comfortable with doing anything and everything online.
Speaker 1: I am old enough to remember when the first started proliferating,
Speaker 1: people were, including me, were very reticent to buy certain
Speaker 1: things online. I would never buy a pair of shoes
Speaker 1: online back in the day, or a pair of genes.
Speaker 1: I needed to go into the store and actually put
Speaker 1: them on, try them on, make sure they fit well.
Speaker 1: Now it's like, if you know your size and you're
Speaker 1: buying a familiar brand, why not I'll go to Levi's
Speaker 1: dot com or I'll go to Nike dot com and
Speaker 1: buy exactly what I want because I know it's gonna
Speaker 1: fit and not. What I say is waste my time
Speaker 1: driving to a particular location to see if they might
Speaker 1: have that one item I want, be disappointed and pissed
Speaker 1: off when I realized they don't have it like the
Speaker 1: Levi's I would want, and then I have to then
Speaker 1: drive somewhere else or waste more time trying to find
Speaker 1: them whetherever they might be in the city. When I
Speaker 1: know I could literally during a commercial break, just bring
Speaker 1: up their online website and a few clicks and it's
Speaker 1: on the way.
Speaker 2: And that's one less human being you have to deal with,
Speaker 2: who's probably going to use the word unfortunately to you.
Speaker 2: If they don't have something, they say, do you need
Speaker 2: me to call another store for you? No?
Speaker 1: No, I don't want you to call another store or
Speaker 1: or you have the salesperson it's like, yes, can I
Speaker 1: interest you in a Macy's account today?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: You cannot.
Speaker 2: Oh that's what I love that the most. They when
Speaker 2: they upsell you after they already asked you if there's
Speaker 2: anything else and you say no, just this please right, and.
Speaker 1: You can receive ten percent off your purchase today? No,
Speaker 1: thank you? Can? I know? Well what it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: How about it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 1: It's always something else. And then they want you to
Speaker 1: input your email so they can send you a receipt.
Speaker 1: Would you like to receipt in the bag or would
Speaker 1: you like us to invade your privacy and send you
Speaker 1: an email for here until eternity.
Speaker 2: And you thought it was invasive when Radio Shack used
Speaker 2: to do that. They were the forerunners of all this.
Speaker 2: It is just those are the things they just want
Speaker 2: to avoid.
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say, it reminds you of when
Speaker 5: he tried to get Eddie Murphy or right, Eddie Murphy
Speaker 5: is Eddie Murphy.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's true. Let me tell people no, yeah, go
Speaker 1: ahead for people who don't know. Every time Eddie Murphy
Speaker 1: tries to come out with something, I will reach out
Speaker 1: to his person, Arnold Robinson, and it's a running joke.
Speaker 1: I send him a message, got his email, Rogerson Cowen.
Speaker 1: He's nice enough to respond, but he'll respond in like
Speaker 1: ten minutes. I'll say I would like to see if
Speaker 1: we can work out a time which for which Eddie
Speaker 1: Murphy can come on the show. He responds to me
Speaker 1: Eddie's not available, but I didn't tell you what day,
Speaker 1: And it got to be a running joke, and I
Speaker 1: even told him's like, Arnold, I know you're not gonna
Speaker 1: say yes, but at least act like you're considering the request.
Speaker 1: So now it's almost like he says no. Before I
Speaker 1: can even get the request out my mouth, I say, Hi,
Speaker 1: this is more so Kelly from Later with O Kelly,
Speaker 1: we like to see if Eddie could come on, And
Speaker 1: before I could finish the sentence, I've already got a
Speaker 1: return email saying no, it's yes. It's every single time.
Speaker 1: I have never gotten past the first email. I'll make
Speaker 1: the request. HI, can we get Eddie on? Hi? Is
Speaker 1: Eddie available? What about if we tried? Can we get
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy to come? Can I finish at least my email?
Speaker 1: Arnold Robinson, your mother is I am six forty and
Speaker 1: it's almost time. So the next time Eddie Murphy comes
Speaker 1: out with something, I am going to literally literally at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show, email Arnold Robinson and I
Speaker 1: promise you he will respond before the end of the
Speaker 1: show with a sorry, but Eddie's not available. I promise
Speaker 1: you it will happen. We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
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Speaker 6: Mister m'kelly, he wants a song.
Speaker 1: This is autonomous vehicles might be on the ball. Mother
Speaker 1: Twoola comes on. Clinchers do under control.
Speaker 6: He says m Kelly is wrong, but Mo thinks he's
Speaker 6: on the payroll.
Speaker 1: Is alo he is its Wamo.
Speaker 6: Be bad, cut you open, Wamo bea run over, Unego
Speaker 6: be bad, fuck you over, wago bead bad. He is
Speaker 6: a loss.
Speaker 1: Kfive Mister bo Kelly live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1: And this is how we know that Twallas Sharp is
Speaker 1: on the payroll. He's on the take when it comes
Speaker 1: to weimo each and every week or month, whenever we
Speaker 1: talk about WEIMO, Twallas Sharp always leaves out the most
Speaker 1: important information, the negative information. Did you know this? In May,
Speaker 1: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation after
Speaker 1: receiving twenty two reports about Waymo robotaxis exhibiting driving behavior
Speaker 1: that potentially violated traffic safety laws or demonstrating other unexpected behavior,
Speaker 1: including seventeen collisions. The NHTSC said several incidents involved collisions
Speaker 1: with clearly visible objects that a competent driver would be
Speaker 1: expected to avoid. Weimo last June recalled six hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy two of itself driving vehicles after one of its
Speaker 1: driverless cars struck a wooden utility pole in Phoenix. In
Speaker 1: February twenty twenty four, Waimo recalled four hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four self driving vehicles after two minor collisions in quick
Speaker 1: succession in Arizona. Seeing a software error could result in
Speaker 1: automated vehicles in accurately predicting the movement of a toad vehicle,
Speaker 1: and now they're expanding Waimo into Washington, d C. What
Speaker 1: could go wrong? All of these slations everywhere traps save
Speaker 1: the time, gotta go to commercial.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry you were saying, this is absolutely an unjust
Speaker 3: mischaracterization of way Mo. They are expanding into your beloved DC. Yes,
Speaker 3: there are, and they can only do so because all
Speaker 3: the things you point out have already been vetted and cleared.
Speaker 3: I like how you bring those stats up, but those
Speaker 3: are stats that have already been again vetted and cleared.
Speaker 1: That's why they can stand burying this. We've had any
Speaker 1: number of conversations you didn't you know. You know what
Speaker 1: else I bury?
Speaker 3: I bury the fact that there are actually sexual predators
Speaker 3: that are are stealing and uh usurping ride share users'
Speaker 3: identities just so they can God and pray on people.
Speaker 1: There's a Pewge story right now.
Speaker 3: There's breaking about all of the sexual predatory behavior of
Speaker 3: ride share drivers. But I didn't want to bring that
Speaker 3: up because you know why, it's not your Maane. This
Speaker 3: is a successful way, not.
Speaker 1: About whether Stephan is a threat to the public as
Speaker 1: a uber driver, just a distraction. This is minimization.
Speaker 3: This is what I'm talking about when I'm trying to
Speaker 3: just make sure that we are focusing on the positive.
Speaker 3: You want to drug up negative headlines with no basis,
Speaker 3: no fact, because they've already been cleared.
Speaker 1: Yes, Weimo is going to start it's autonomous ride hailing
Speaker 1: service in Washington, d C. Next year. They've in fact
Speaker 1: began moving vehicles to the city back in January, and
Speaker 1: they'll bring more to the city in than coming weeks
Speaker 1: as it's getting ready to start this service. If you
Speaker 1: don't know anything about DC, there are a lot of
Speaker 1: laws and prohibitions regarding ride share and especially autonomous vehicles
Speaker 1: in the city. It's a difficult city to drive if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with the grid system. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of one way streets, There are a lot of
Speaker 1: traffic circles. I say that to say there are a
Speaker 1: lot of potential road hazards and rules that Weimo is
Speaker 1: going to have to navigate both on the road and
Speaker 1: also off the road as far as policy to gain
Speaker 1: access to the fullness of Washington, d C. Now, if
Speaker 1: they could, it could be very successful because that's a
Speaker 1: city you don't want to drive in. You want to
Speaker 1: have someone pick you up and take you be it
Speaker 1: Uber rideshare personal driver by all means you don't want
Speaker 1: to have to drive and park a car in Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: It is a nightmare. I rested my case, thank you
Speaker 1: very much. No, no, no, there is a use for it.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that this technology is dangerous to the
Speaker 1: we get people killed. It's not, it's not, and be
Speaker 1: careful because you might be sued for that. Bring it on,
Speaker 1: when will kiss my hands? We're live everywhere in the
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